Calexico

Sorry, this event’s been and gone

When:

Thu 22 Feb ’07

Where: Studio, 340 Karangahape Rd, Newton Show map

"A band has got to keep changing and moving or it will get boring and break up," says CALEXICO's John Convertino. Fortunately CALEXICO have barely stopped moving for ten years. Even when they're not on the road - and this band tours hard - they're recording: for themselves, with others. It's a tradition that Tucson, Arizona residents Joey Burns and Convertino - the engine that drives CALEXICO - have maintained ever since they worked with another endlessly productive individual with an intense work ethic, Howe Gelb, with whom they constituted Giant Sand for over a decade. And it's a tradition that ensures that, whatever they're involved in, it's going to be at least a little different from what you heard last time. If that wasn't the case, CALEXICO would still be trading in the lo-fi dusty instrumental cassettes recorded on an answering machine that represented their very first work back in 1996.